President Idi Amin Dada declared an economic war, revoked the residence permits of the Asians (numbering over80,000) and gave them 90 days to leave the country.
Amin said God had told him in a dream that he should kick them out.
He furthermore claimed that Asians were sabotaging the Ugandan economy and were exploiters whose objective was self enrichment at the expense of the indigenous people.
Everything that went wrong with the economy was blamed on the Asians.
Actually, even today, some Ugandans silently support the criminal act — of expelling Asians — and self- interestedly think of Amin as a nationalist, despite his brutal dictatorial credentials.
The decision taken by Amin to expel the Asians from Uganda was unwarranted, inhumane,
extreme and non-strategic.
